Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Kelly Services, Inc.., Meadow Burke/Oldcastle, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33619
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working at a facility that made precast concrete on machinery that pulled wire and his finger was pulled into the machine after it was started up amputating the tip of his finger.
HospitalizedAmputationFingertip(s)Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
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